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Ghast vs Ghat - What's the difference?

ghast | ghat |

As a verb ghast

is .

As an adjective ghast

is having a ghastly appearance; weird.

As a noun ghat is

(india) a descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.

ghast

English

Etymology 1

Variation of gast, from (etyl) gasten, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

(en verb)
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Poetic abbreviation of ghastly.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a ghastly appearance; weird.

    • ghat

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ghaut

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (India) A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.
  • *2008 , Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger , Atlantic 2009, p. 16:
  • *:Chunks of wood were being built into funeral pyres on the steps of the ghat'' that went down into the water; four bodies were burning on the ''ghat steps when we got there.
  • (India) A mountain range.
  • (India) A mountain pass.
  • (India) A burning-ghat.